“I make things out of things, big things, little things, old things and new things. I like to recycle things, and find new uses for things that have been thrown away. Some things say something about their surroundings, and other things become something else.”

For more than 20 years, David Kemp has lived and worked on the exposed Atlantic coast of West Cornwall – inspired by the natural landscape, and by the remains of the tin-mining industry carried out there since medieval times. Living among the ruins, he collects fragments, piecing together curious connections between past and emergent mythologies and technologies.

I built the Heavy Plant in 1988, in the courtyard of of the recently opened SHEFFIELD SCIENCE PARK , from the detritus of Sheffield’s once huge steel industries, discovered in scrapyards and demolished buildings,in and around the city.

Now,26 years later, the clever earth(steel) from which the piece was made is rusting away , and the sculpture finds itself(again), in the way of new developments .

A campaign has been started in Sheffield to re site the sculpture,

to view the campaign film, look under the video section on this website,